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[noteswiththoughts]

Thus, a state of patience results from abandoning actions arising from desire. Patience is the constancy of the religious impulse that opposes the impulse of appetite. The constancy of the religious impulse is a state borne of knowledge of the enmity and the opposition of the appetites to the cause of true happiness in this world and the Hereafter. When a man's certainty that the appetite is the enemy, blocking the way to God, then the steadfastness of the religious impulse is strengthened

Al-Ghazali, “On Patience and Grattitude”